Once again I am running this list as a central location to let your Secret Santa know when your (hopefully much appreciated) gift has arrived to your house.

Use this list to record what your Secret Santas sent you and remember to include any comments such as thanks that you want to give your Secret Santa. When you post on this list, you may want to make a note on your profile with a link to your entry so your Secret Santa can easily locate your confirmation of delivery and your reaction. That way your Secret Santa can look to see if you received your gift and you can post any comments you may have about the gift here and you can reply without the identity of your Secret Santa ever having to be released!

Please only make an entry when you actually receive the present!

I don't know about anyone else, but I generally obsess about whether a package has arrived at it's intended destination. I drive my wife crazy with checking tracking numbers constantly! So it will be nice to see when those gifts are actually received by the giftee (or are they just sitting unclaimed on the neighbor's porch?)

To see how the previous years' editions of this list have gone, look at these links:

[b]New Note (I placed this in the comments section as well): If you have added a "Comment" of your gift receipt, please take the time to "Add Item" to this GeekList rather than to place a comment in this section of the receipt of your gift. The actual items being added is how the statistics get accumulated for Simon Hunt's great results list located at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/49122

A good example of how to make an entry useful for this other list is located at: this entry.

Making an actual entry will also make it easier for your Secret Santa to locate your Item.

Thank you Secret Santa. My gift arrived nice and safe and well packaged on the 29th (it would have arrived earlier, but it got lost in the post).

I got Agricola Farmers of the Moor, which i guess a lot of people may have wished for, and Chaos Marauders. I was so nervous because just by chance a lot of people had bought me presents from my wish list for Christmas and was hopping not to have any duplicates. Christmas magic was in the air as it all worked out in the end.

A thanks also to Nick and Sue from Shire games who provided the gifts and wrapped them so nicely too.

Cheesy Gonzola is almost impossible to find right now in the States so it was a great send from my Canadian friend. Château Roquefort is a game that I had picked to give our kids this Christmas. Having a 5 player available was very nice to allow the whole family to play. We played our first game yesterday and the entire family loved it.

Earlier this week we played Shadows over Camelot using the new characters in the expansion. My family is still new to SOC so it may take a few more playings before they ask for it to be harder for them. It will come. When I ask my kids what their favorite game is, they still respond with SOC. So thank you Santa for prompting us to play it again.

Thank you Santa. Both of these were very fine gifts and much appreciated. Hope your Christmas was a joyous as ours has been.

did a good job of sounding like I was getting a different game, so it ended up being a nice surprise.

My friends managed to get on a flight a few days late. They were staying in the Old City of Jerusalem for their niece's wedding Tuesday night, and left yesterday. The bride's family moved to my place today, and brought the game with them.

I'm late posting this item (page 48!) so I doubt anyone will see this but I had a great and special Christmas this year, and wanted to make sure to thank my secret santa who was the icing on the cake!

My secret santa sent his presents early this year and in 2 separate shipments! Of course I just *had* to open the packaging just to make sure nothing was damaged . Unfortunately the games were all expertly wrapped so my cunning plan to get early access was foiled and I had to leave them begrudgingly under the tree.

While all this was going on, my wife was pregnant and due to give birth on Christmas Eve, so I spent most of the advent hoping that the baby would hold on just long enough to let me tear open the gifts under the tree before rushing to hospital.

Luck was on my side and we got a lovely Christmas at home, the first one (and maybe last) my wife and I have ever had alone.

My secret santa sent me:

The World Cup Game with The World Cup Game: Expansion Set 1. This was a great pick! A really fantastic and unknown gem that is perfect for groups and easy for non-gamers to understand, always tense and a fantastic social event. I love this game and have played it a few times but have been itching to get my own copy so I am very chuffed. The World Cup 2010 groups have been picked recently so this is the perfect excuse for a world cup party where we try to predict the outcome. The first expansion includes 3 more world cup events and a bunch of new countries so adds a lot more options for our games.

Also, in a very thoughtful move I received a fully assembled, colour and laminated copy of Bindle Rails. I have had my eager eye on this P&P game for a while and since I have the motivation of a slug, I just havent been able to face all the printing and cutting. So I am particularly pleased that I will finally get to play this cracker without the hard work! Cheers Santa!!

I received a final gift which I didn't get to use immediately, but thankfully I didn't have to wait too long. At midnight on Christmas day my wife went into labour and at half past 3 on Boxing day afternoon our new baby boy was born.

Now it is time to pick up some 3 player games, and it is nice for an excuse to pick up some of the cool stuff from Haba!

We're all very pleased and well, home after a short stay in hospital. Finally a chance to photograph the new additions to our collection of games and family members

The shirt is that last special gift from Secret Santa, and says "Daddy told me not to chew the dice". A little big but he is a small baby and will grow into both the shirt and, unfortunately, the dice-eating habit quickly enough...

My Santa this year was extremely generous. Not only did he send me 1848 from his late father's collection, but also a new in shrink copy of Steam! I'm hoping to get 1848 to the table tomorrow, though we'll see - I haven't applied all the stickers and whatnot yet, nor read the rules in detail, so we may play a more familiar game instead. Hopefully I'll be able to get it to the table later in January even if we don't play it tomorrow. As to Steam, maybe next Tuesday, or later in the weekend.

My Secret Santa sent me a copy of Memoir and a side of the Teen Titans CCG. I can't wait to get them to the table. I've made a semi-serious resolution to try to play more two-player games this year (in an effort to get in more games in general). I played Battlelore, but my opponent didn't like the fantasy theme very much. I'm pretty sure he and I will both enjoy Memoir.

My Secret Santa was wonderful and generous to me this year. He sent me a first present (beautifully gift-wrapped) through local game store Seriously Board which I did not open 'til X'mas. In it, was Endeavor!!

Not only that, Santa sent me another parcel while holidaying in Singapore. That package arrived after X'mas but it's perfectly fine for me - it's the thought that counts, right?

In it was R-Eco (one of my Santa's favourite game), and he added a personal touch with a X'mas card too. That's not where it ends though, opening up the card to read the greeting and there it was... lying there safe and secure was... the Extra Treasures for Jamaica!!!! YAY!!!! I've been trying to get my hands on the extra treasures for a long time already but I've never been able to, because from what I know, they were given out at conventions only, which are difficult for me to get to.

Thank you so very very much Secret Santa! You outdid yourself... I love the gifts!!!

I took the opportunity to introduce R-Eco on New Year's eve to a friend who is a gaming newbie, and we played it for six times consecutively. It was the last game I played for 2009 and the first game played in 2010.

As for my friend, she's now addicted to R-Eco and I'm going to buy her a copy as a gift. Thank you for introducing this game to us Santa! Although it's not on my Wishlist, you made the perfect choice

Sorry for the late notice, I've been very busy after Christmas (mostly playing games though )

One of the games I was playing...was my gift I got from Santa!I have the most awesomest secret santa!

I opened the huge box I got during Christmas.I got a game very very very high on my wishlist: The innsmouth horror expansion to Arkham Horror.

However, that wasn't everything! I also found a box of chocolates in it, and a christmas card with a santa-meeple!After reading the rules I wanted to throw the box+filling away...but to my big surprise, I found more in the box!

- Tier auf Tier: das kartenspiel.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand...Arkham Horror Dice! Now I've already played 3 games with these dice...and they're awesome!

Thanks so much Santa!!!! I love Wallace games and Age of Steam and Railroad Tycoon are one of my favorite!!!! So i'll opened the box and Ill found not one!!!!!! 2 Games STEAM!!!!!!! and a second one Primordial Soup

(this game ill try to buy many times but for one or other reason i don't)

This was my first year participating, and I could not be more delighted. In addition to ...aber bitte mit Sahne, we were sent:

(2) sewn drawstring component bags(1) felt rectangle, to be used as a portable game table(1) miniature flashlight ('cause we camp and cave)(1) hand knit potholder ('cause we cook)and(1) killer Red Wings baseball cap (with express instructions that the bf not be allowed to steal it )

Thanks so much, Santa, for not only getting us a game that we love, but also for making the rest of the package special. You're awesome!

Secret Santa, Thanks so much for your generosity. It finally arrived as I am quite remote and the local snow storms slowed all deliveries. Thanks to your great taunts I never doubted that my package would arrive.

Thank you so much, You have not only blessed me with two great games, but you have set a new bar for me in great taunting my secret santa target for next year as well.

Happy New Year and much great gaming fellowship with your family and friends.

This actually arrived while we were out of the country, so I'm last posting this. A great surprise waiting for me when we got back home tonight! My SS also included some DVD's, filler games, and a few oddities.